Joint Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and are organized by The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall and Princeton University in the Spring. Details on the current colloquiums can be found below. Coffee provided 10:30am to 11:00am before the start of the lecture. The Joint Astrophysics Colloquium is immediately followed by the Bahcall Lunch. 

For questions about a speaker's visit to The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall, please contact Callum Fairbarin, Gabriela Sato-Polito, or Amanda Cenker.

For questions about a speaker's visit to Princeton University the Spring, please contact:  or Mami Akiyama. Visitors to the Princeton University Campus must follow their visitor policy.

Videos of past talks at the IAS can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.

Colloquia Archives

Current Colloquium Schedule

Feb
11
2025

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

A case for Mars terraforming research
Edwin Kite
11:00am|Peyton Hall, Auditorium, Princeton University

What we cannot create, we do not understand." Can we understand enough about climate and ecosystems to build them on other planets (and exoplanets)? A necessary, but insufficient, first step for making Mars's surface suitable for life would be to...